Great Captains: A Course of Six Lectures Showing the Influences on the Art of War of the Campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, C�sar, Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick, and Napoleon (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Theodore Ayrault Dodge

9780265322093: Great Captains: A Course of Six Lectures Showing the Influences on the Art of War of the Campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, C�sar, Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick, and Napoleon (Classic Reprint)

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But, mindful that Gustavus was the first to rescue methodical war from the oblivion of the Middle Ages, and that he originated the modern system.

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THEODORE AYRAULT DODGE (1842-1909) was considered by his contemporaries, as well as by many later historians, to be the greatest American military historian of the nineteenth century and an unparalleled biographer of some of history's greatest generals and commanders. He fought in the Union Army in some of the Civil War's fiercest and costliest engagements, including the Seven Days Battle, Second Bull Run, and Chancellorsville, until he lost his right leg at Gettysburg. These experiences provided him with insights into the realities of warfare that are sometimes lacking in the work of purely academic or ''armchair'' military historians.

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